Down The TBR Hole #9 & Buddy Read with me?

This is week nine of Down The TBR Hole, which a meme hosted by yours truly here on Lost In A Story. I’m also interested in buddy reading again, since I had so much fun doing that before, see the list at the bottom for more info.

Most of you probably know this feeling, your Goodreads TBR pile keeps growing and growing and it seems like there is no light at the end of the tunnel. You keep adding, but you add more than you actually read. And then when you’re scrolling through your list, you realize that you have no idea what half the books are about and why you added them. Well that’s going to change!

It works like this:

• Go to your goodreads to-read shelf.
• Order on ascending date added.
• Take the first 5 (or 10 if you’re feeling adventurous) books. Of course if you do this weekly, you start where you left off the last time.
• Read the synopses of the books
• Decide: keep it or should it go?

The Books:

Silent Echo by Elisa Freilich

Only looking at the cover of this book makes me go “ugh no” and when reading the synopsis I think exactly the same. A muted girl that gets back her voice, which is apparently super powerful and also she falls in love with a musician.

The Judgement: GO

 

 

 

 

 

The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

I really liked the movie, so I should definitely read this one (also people have been bugging me about this book for ages, so I should probably just get it over with).

The Judgement: KEEP

 

 

 

 

 

 

Carve The Mark by Veronica Roth

You know, it’s Veronica Roth, soooo… Everybody has probably read the Divergent series which I really enjoyed, so I’m going to keep this one too.

The Judgement: KEEP

 

 

 

 

 

A Million Worlds with You by Claudia Gray

I need this pretty thing so my trilogy is complete! So stunning and also an awesome series, it has dimensional travelling!

The Judgement: KEEP

 

 

 

 

 

A Torch Against the Night by Sabaa Tahir

I should learn not to add sequels before reading the first in a series. This is exactly why my TBR is such a mess. Goodbye (for now)

The Judgement: GO

Did I make the right decisions? Have you read these books?

 

 

 

I’ve really enjoyed buddy reading with you all the past few months, and I really want to do it again sometime. So if you’d like to read with me, let me know! I want to read any book from my Beat The Backlist tbr (on goodreads) below, and then preferably the ones that I already own, but other books on my tbr are good too!

• Shadow Web by N.M. Browne — own
• Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman — own
• The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon — own
• Dangerous by Shannon Hale — own
• A Boy Called M.O.U.S.E. by Penny Dolan — own
• The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
• Graceling by Kristin Cashore — own
• Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
• Heartless by Marissa Meyer
• This Savage Song by Victoria Schwab
• An Ember in The Ashes by Sabaa Tahir — own
• Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo — own
• P.S. I Still Love You by Jenny Han
• Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo — own
• A Million Worlds with You by Claudia Gray
• The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
• Six Of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
• The Winner’s Curse by Marie Rutkoski — own
• Isla and the Happily Ever After by Stephanie Perkins
• Sinner by Maggie Stiefvater — own
• The Unexpected Everything by Morgan Matson
• Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by John Tiffany — own
• A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking — own